Intro to system science and permaculture (online)

Thinking Systematically: Achieving Sustainable Systems

A simple introduction to systems science and its links to permaculture:

• Systems science provides a means of analyzing and understanding complex processes based on a few basic principles
• Complex systems behave in complex ways and may change over time
• When problems emerge there is an underlying positive feedback loop that may not be evident
• Such problems cannot be solved using linear causality thinking
• True sustainability involves whole systems thinking and design
• Permaculture is the application of systems thinking to the design of living arrangements